Drip-catch attachment for shower-bath roses



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E. HORTON DRIP CATCH ATTACHMENT FOR SHOWER BATH RQSjES Filed March 1924' Patented Nov. 3t 1926.

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EDITH HORTON, OF GREEN WICI-I, NEAR SYDNEY, HEY SOUTH VTALES, AUSTRALIA.

DRIP-CATCH ATTACHMENT FOR SHOV/"ER-BATH ROSES.

Application filed March 10, 1924, Serial No. 698,277, and

This invention consists of an attachment for domestic shower baths, and has for its object to provide a means whereby drip water from the shower rose will be collected and retained in a vessel which is discharged when the shower is brought into use, in order thereby to avoid discomfort and inconvenience to users of the plunge bath resulting from the dripping of water from the shower rose.

The device consists in a cup which is hung to swing so that it may be brought under the shower rose to receive drip water from it and retain the drip, and swung upwardly over the rose into an inverted position to leave its perforate underface clear when it is required to make use of the shower. The cup may be modified in its structural form and in the method of its mounting so long as it is arranged to function with the object above described. Thus for instance, it might be arranged on a hinged mounting, or it might be arranged, as shown in the accompanying drawings, to swing on trunnion supports.

In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a side elevational view showing the attachment fitted to a shower rose of conventional type, and setin the protecting position, that is swung under the rose, the altern ative position which it occupies when the shower is in use being shown in dotted lines;

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional elevation (broken) showing a mounting yoke suspended from the downbent end of the overhead water pipe;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view through Fig. 1 on the line 33 of a buffer collar which is provided for fitting over the horizontal portion of the water pipe to take the contact of the rim of the cup when it is thrown to the inverted position;

Fig. 4: is a fragmentary transverse section through the downbent end of the water pipe showing the manner of fixing the mounting yoke thereon.

A is the water pipe terminating in a downbent end B on which the socket of the rose 0 is screwed in the usual manner. The protective cup attachment D is hung on trunnion pins which may be formed on the ends of a divided yoke G as shown in Fig. 2. The trunnion pins may project through holes fit- Australia March 26, 1923.

ted to carry them in the sides of the cup D as shown in F 2.

At its frontal side,

the cup D is slotted as shown at H to offer clearance for it when it is inverted to the dotted position shown in Fig. 1, the slot H then straddling the buffer collar which is detachably fitted on the pipe A. This buffer collar is tubular rubber piece J split at K to facilitate fitting, and built up on a split spring band L. It is set on the pipe A by springing it thereon and allowing it to snap tightly. is an arm projecting upwardly from one side of the cup D above one of the trunnions. From its bent end M a pull chain N is hung. When the cup is in normal or pendant position as shown in the full side view Fig. 1 the chain N hangs as shown in the full lines and when the cup is inverted to free the shower rose for use the chain falls to the position shown in the dotted line. By a dexterous movement of the chain N, the cup D is swung from either position to the other position. The yoke G is preferably formed in two counter parts as shown in Fig. 4. These parts are secured together by bolts 0 to bind the yoke on the pipe-bend B. P are adapter pieces to enable fitting of a stock yoke on pipe bends B of small diameter.

The bottom portion of the cup D below the lip R forms a well of suflicient capacity to retain any drip water which may fall from the shower rose. The drip water so collected is discharged into the bath when the cup D is inverted into the dotted position shown in Fig. 1. Normally the cup D is allowed to hang below the shower rose in order to collect any drip water and so prevent same falling into the bath.

It is to be understood that the detail of the arrangement may be varied so long as the essential feature is maintained consisting in an invertible cup arranged to be hung or swung below the shower rose with Ca pacity for collecting and holding drip water from the shower when it is in pendant position.

Having now fully described and ascertained my said invention and the manner in which it is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is A. drip-catching fitting for shower bath roses comprising a cup. a yoke attachable to a water pipe on which a shower rose 1s fitted,

trunnions on the ends of said yoke for penda pull chain, said arm adapted for effecting ently supporting said cup at diametrally opreversal of the cups position from normal posite points, and adapted to permit the into inverted position and vice versa when verting of the cup over said rose, a bufier movement is applied to said arm.

adapted to be fixed to said Water pipe to Dated this twenty-sixth day of January, support the rim of said cup when it is in A. D. 1924:.

its inverted position, and an ofl'set arm on one side of said cup and adapted to suspend EDITH HORTON. 

